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Walz was in the National Guard for 24 years and put in his resignation well before he learned his unit would be deployed to Iraq.
Vance - who is a Marine who served one tour as a journalist and never saw combat - attacked Walz for 'stolen valor' as he never saw combat.
It's massively hypocritical, has been tried before successfully against John Kerry, (Swiftboating was the term back then) and is coming from the VP of a candidate who avoided Vietnam due to crippling bone spurs, which should make it hard to do shit like play golf.
Both Vance and Walz are veterans. Vance has no grounds to attack Walz's service at all.
Also, he put in his resignation when he was running for congress. I believe he would have been required to retire anyways when he was elected.
Not quite. But he would have left unit leadership anyways. The real hilarious bit is Vance left his unit in 2007. If he's so worried about leaving teammates to go to Iraq without them then he most definitely is guilty of the same sin.
It's a complete nonsense attack. The military is built on turnover.